The new scsi-pata drivers (replacing hda with sda is the most visible change) breaks ofpath, the utility yaboot uses to set up your bootloader. I've rewritten ofpath to work around the problem, please give it a try by simply passing it all of your devices (/dev/sda, /dev/hda, /dev/cdrom, etc.) and pasting the result here, along with grep machine /proc/cpuinfo.

You probably have a consistent udev rule set up for hdb (or whatever it was before). Now that the CD drive has changed names, udev is assigning it cdrom2 instead. This keeps multiple devices from changing IDs. You can fix this by removing the 70-persistent-cd.rules file from /etc/udev/rules.d and let it regenerate.

Apparently, I can't seem to bypass the 'ext2.fsck' issue on my Mac mini G4. I'm considering switching to Debian or *BSD if I can't deal with this issue by the end of the week. Here is my offpath from the liveCD:

What is missing to see this fix inside the stable tree? I did a rebuild of my system last weekend and I nuke the bootloader as the ofpath add been change by the broken one. I'm just asking. I don't want to rush anyone._________________"... before that, there was amoebas..."

Thanks so much for updating ofpath. You rock! When I switched over to the SCSI drivers I thought that I was going to have to boot with the install CD from then on to get the ofpath of devices. Please note, that since I was using that technique prior to my knowledge of your new ofpath, I recorded the output of the old ofpath. I did notice one difference between the output of the old ofpath and the new one on the same machine, as you will see below. If this is a problem, I'm not sure, and will leave it in your expert hands. If I can be of further assistance in testing, let me know. I'll check back on this forum from time to time.
Thanks Again!